Designing A Textbox, Unabridged
29th March 2019
Building websites is hard. Let’s explore the creation of a component from start to finish, in the context of an exaggerated reality where projects aren’t flawless.The web is becoming an ever more powerful tool, a way to communicate with an unimaginable number of people. I enjoy the challenges that the scale of the web brings and I love turning ideas into useful, tangible—often quirky—websites and web apps.
Prototyping On The Web
So you have had a great idea but not sure where to start? This is where I come in.
A lot of the companies that I work with already have brilliant web development teams working on production code. I am brought in (often remotely) to prototype new ideas or features. For example, one company already had a 2D map-based web app and asked me to play around with creating a 3D version. While I can and often do write production code, I love the mindset of working out new ideas.
Building an App Store With Vue.js
4th July 2017
I recently built a website for LimeMicro that gave a read-only view of their Ubuntu (white-labelled) App Store.GISPortal
10th October 2016
The GISPortal is a tool for visualising and analysing large amounts of marine data
GeoRanking
10th October 2016
GeoRanking visualises postcodes ranked by the desirability for a specific person to live in the area
Creating my 10k Apart entry
5th October 2016
This years 10K Apart is about creating a good experience on the web while focussing on progressive enhancement and small page sizes. I dont usually enter competitions but having not coded for fun in a while, I thought it seemed a good idea.JavaScript Creativity
My book, JavaScript Creativity, was published by Apress in 2014. I used a mixture of various technologies from canvas and webgl through to video and web rtc, to explore the fun and crazy things that we can do on the web. Essentially it was my playground that I used to push the limits of the web.
Jeremy Keith summed it up nicely in the foreword as “a snapshot of the cutting edge of what’s possible in web browsers today”
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Recent work
20th July 2017
I'm currently working with the team at NHS Digital on the 111 Online project to ensure excellent accessibility and performance of the website.
14th July 2017
I helped to develop Saga's rebranded homepage and various components for use across the organisation.
28th June 2017
My task with Vroomi was to prototype how an office environment would work in virtual reality. Using A-Frame and Vue.js I was able to iterate quickly and experiment with lots of ideas.
2nd June 2017
I used Vue.js (with server side rendering) to create a fast reliable website for viewing Lime Microsystems' multiple Ubuntu white-labelled app stores.
3rd April 2017
I worked with StreetTeam in early 2017, to help maintain and improve their systems using modern front-end technologies and mindset.
20th August 2016
Elbi hired me for two months to improve the campaign creation process for their admin and charity tools.
30th June 2016
Cowdray is a large estate based in Midhurst, just down the road from me, so I was excited when Alex Stanhope from 247 Creative approached me to help develop their new website. It was a fully responsive redesign that needed to bring together all of the parts of the estate into a single cohesive website.
30th April 2016
I worked with Optimum Consulting for 3 months working on Employee Life, their Employee Relationship Management. Most of my time was spent creating admin tools for creating reports of activity across the platform.
27th January 2016
In January 2016 I was looking for a fun project to start the year, FractalToy did not disappoint. I was hired to add WebVR (with Oculus Rift support) to their WebGL raycaster to explore 3D fractals in virtual reality.
21st October 2015
In October 2015, I worked alongside the great team at Hinge Ltd to redesign Ecommerce Influence. This involved a full responsive design for their public facing blog as well as their private members area.
12th October 2015
I spent a month working with Azimuth1 visualising scientific data from underground sensors on a 3D map. This work was very experimental so I had a lot of freedom to prototype the idea.
31st August 2015
The Philadelphia local news website Billy Penn hired me to add a "stories" feature to link multiple news postings and other types of content together as one unified story. The editors have the ability to colour-code and add an icon to each story, so that there is an obvious connection throughout the site for each post.